MOTI: 1995 Focus on Affordability of New Technology -- Innovation, Implementation and Costs

9525751 Currie这个项目的目标是为集成管理工具设计一个框架，以量化与不同复杂程度的技术开发相关的成本。除了直接成本，这些成本还包括未测量的交货时间成本、培训成本、学习成本、抗拒变革成本、产生的瓶颈成本和质量成本，以及缺乏从研究人员到产品创意、从供应商到售后支持的系统视图。将分析三家制造公司以前设计变更经验的具体成本数据。这些和其他已知的案例研究将被用来建立一个通用模型，包括一个公司的组织功能的关系，总产品设计生命周期成本。研究结果应该是基于互联网的并行设计和成本计算的初步实施。这项工作的意义将提供在产品设计阶段估计和跟踪成本的一般方法。综合成本模型将用经验数据进行验证，为开发管理工具以确定适当的设计/成本权衡提供坚实的基础。

9525751 Currie The goal of this project is to design a framework for an integrated management tool to quantify the costs associated with technological development at varying levels of complexity. In addition to direct costs, these costs include the unmeasured costs of lead time, training, learning, resistance to change, created bottlenecks, and quality costs, as well as the lack of a system's view from researcher to product idea and then from supplier through post-sales support. Specific cost data from previous design change experiences at three manufacturing companies will be analyzed. These and other known case studies will be used to build a general model that includes the relationships of organizational functions of a firm to total product design life cycle costs. The research should result in a preliminary Internet-based implementation for concurrent design and costing. The significance of the work will offer a general approach to estimating and tracking costs in the product design phase. The integrated cost model will be validated with empirical data to provide a firm basis upon which to develop management tools for determining appropriate design/cost tradeoffs.